Velora Speaker

Product Design2025

A 4-week team project to reverse engineer a bluetooth speaker and re-imagined to serve food truck owners.

Render of the Velora speaker with its red grille and logo

Research

Food truck owners work in a small, fast and busy environment.

Food truck owners work in compact, busy environments where workspace is limited. A speaker for this setting should fit into the daily workflow, with a small footprint and controls that are easy to access during service. Placement, cleaning, and exposure to outdoor conditions are additional considerations for the design.

KEY INSIGHTS

01

OUTDOOR CONDITIONS

Works regardless of weather conditions.

02

CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE

Not only do the workers enjoy the speaker, but customers as well.

03

CLEANLINESS

It’s important for food trucks to have a clean environment.

THE OPPORTUNITY

How might we design a speaker that creates better customer experience?

PRODUCT & MARKET

Reverse engineered a Tribit bluetooth speaker to analyze its parts and how it functions.

Main components:

  • Adjustable volume, power, bluetooth, play/pause, buttons
  • Speaker grill
  • Speaker body
  • Nylon strap
  • Bass
  • Batteries
  • Breadboard
Tribit speaker taken apart, parts laid out in a row

Development

SKETCH IDEATIONS

Speaker ideation sketches inspired by food truck shapes
Speaker sketches including a burger shape and a cup
Refined speaker sketches with grills and silicone grips
Speaker sketch with control buttons and a toothpick drawer

PROTOTYPING

Lo-Fi Prototypes

Cardboard and foam cup shaped speaker prototype
Cardboard prototype with button panel
Tall triangular foam prototype
Low foam prototype with a tray
Foam prototype with two speaker cones
Two part foam and cardboard prototype

Assembly

3D Modelling

Printed speaker housing with two drivers set in white foam
Open black printed housing with batteries and the circuit board fitted inside
CAD model of the speaker housing showing the button cutouts inside

Final Design

Velora presentation board: reverse engineered bluetooth speaker with dimensions

PROTOTYPE

Velora speaker front with the logo grille
Velora speaker whiteboard side reading specials, burger combo
Velora logo grille up close
Control buttons on the speaker top
Charging ports under a flap
Black back of the speaker